Israeli aircraft struck more than 150 targets in Gaza on Wednesday night and early Thursday, and Palestinian militants fired scores of rockets deep into Israel before the fighting appeared to lessen late Thursday.

After the long-range Palestinian missile attack, the first of its kind since a 2014 war, Israeli air strikes resumed on Thursday afternoon, flattening a multi-storey building that the Israeli military described as a Hamas headquarters.

A pregnant Palestinian woman and her 18-month-old child were killed in the Israeli attacks overnight, as was a Hamas militant, local medical officials said. Hundreds of people took part in the funeral for the woman and child on Thursday.

The Israeli military said seven people were wounded by Palestinian rockets and mortars that hit southern Israel across the border.

Israel has fought three wars in the past decade with Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza strip. A surge in cross border rocket and air strikes in recent weeks have prompted the United Nations and Egypt to try to broker a truce to prevent another one.

The violence decreased late Thursday, with two Palestinian officials telling Reuters that Israel and Hamas had agreed to a truce.

There was however no Israeli confirmation of an agreement.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security cabinet late into the night on Thursday. A statement issued by his office said the forum instructed the military to “keep acting with force against the terrorists”.

Palestinians fire long-range missile into Israel

People inspect the debris of Said Al-Mashal Foundation for Arts and Culture building after Israeli forces conducted airstrikes, in the western part of Gaza City

Ambulance sirens echoed through the night in Gaza, where families huddled at home as powerful explosions thundered through the narrow strip. Across the border rocket warning sirens sounded almost non-stop from sunset on Wednesday in Israeli towns and villages where residents sheltered in bunkers.

The Israeli military said its aircraft had struck more than 150 Hamas targets overnight, while more than 180 Palestinian rockets and mortars hit southern Israel.

For the first time since the 2014 war, Palestinian militants on Thursday fired a long-range missile deep into Israeli territory. Twenty-five miles from the border, air raid sirens rang out in Israel’s main southern city Beersheba.

Israeli Army Radio said militants had fired a Grad missile capable of reaching Israel’s heartland. Israeli police said they found its remnants in an open area on the outskirts of the city of 200,000 people and that no one was hurt.

Israel responded by hitting the multi-storey building, first with small bombs apparently so that people would evacuate, then flattening it to the ground with a huge blast that shook the city and raised clouds of dust and smoke.

Residents said the building had served mainly as a cultural centre. Local health officials said 18 bystanders were wounded outside of the building by the blast. Hamas denied using the facility.

US ‘concerned’ but says Israel has right to defend itself

Israel captured Gaza in a 1967 war but withdrew in 2005, while holding onto most of the separate West Bank, where Palestinians have limited self-rule. For more than a decade Gaza has been controlled by Hamas under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade that has collapsed its economy, creating what the World Bank has described as a humanitarian crisis with shortages of water, electricity and medicine.

Israel says it has no choice but to enforce its blockade to defend itself against Hamas, which calls for Israel’s destruction and has used Gaza as a base for missile attacks.

Yuval Steinitz, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet, told Israel Radio earlier that Israel was “not eager for war” but would make no concessions to Hamas.

Meanwhile a US State Department spokeswoman said Washington was monitoring developments in Gaza and believes the situation was very concerning. But, she insisted, Israel has the right to defend itself.

“Overall, we condemn the launching of missile attacks into Israel and call for an end to the destructive violence,” said State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert.

We Are Not Numbers #Gaza
@WeAreNotNumbers
It’s so sad that that a pregnant young woman, in her ninth month, was just killed along with her one year old daughter as the #Israeli warplanes targeted a house in Dair Albalah City.
The warplanes are still in the skies of #Gaza while #Palestinians are afraid of death!

“Digital ambassadors”
The ad for paid interns was forwarded to the mailing list of the Israeli Students Association at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York earlier this month by the local Hillel office coordinator.

The email was sent to the Hillel by Sam Bialosky.

Miller Ink is a small public relations outfit run (apparently out of the local Starbucks) by Nathan Miller (a former speech writer at Israel’s UN mission in New York).

“Please find attached a part-time paid internship opportunity with ISRAEL21c. We are looking for smart, passionate college and graduate students,” wrote Bialosky.

In the ad, applicants are asked to send a resume to Miller, along with a short writing sample.

“We are looking for students in college or graduate school who are passionate about ISRAEL21c’s Mission, and excited to share its content with their networks and others on social media and beyond,” it states.

Successful “digital ambassadors” are to be paid a stipend of $600 in exchange for between two and three hours per week over a six-month period. A “launch conference” for this, the “second class” of ambassadors, will take place in September in Los Angeles.

Miller Ink, contracted by Israel21c for this task, states on its website that it services include “social media campaigns” and “media messaging.”

Palestine was Land of Jews first of all, Erez-Israel, and not Falastyn Orabistyn

Hind Abyad

Time to shut up Zionist cuckoos nest.

/The number one biblical verse used by Zionist Jews and Zionist Christians alike to justify dispossessing the Palestinians of their land is this one:

“On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates….’” Genesis 15:18

By descendants God definitely meant the same biological bloodline, the same DNA, actual grandchildren of Abram/Abraham. Not spiritual progeny. As even a cursory study would show, those today who are known as Jews are not remotely bloodline descendants of Abraham.”

The Ashkenazim are a resilient, roaming Turkic people. They have a knack for reinventing themselves. They first surfaced in world annals as the notoriously barbaric Scythians or Sakadeans, depending on regional phonetic.

“Here there is no Gentile or Judahite, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.” Colossians 3: 11

“The word Scythian or Sakadean comes from the word Saka – with its Iranian verbal root Sak, meaning to roam.”

Hind Abyad

“The Scythians settled Central Eurasia which they conquered with their Gentile brother Togarmath and various other cousins, expanding across a vast track of land that encompassed but was not limited to parts of present-day Turkey and Iran. Their Gentile brother Riphath along with their uncle Javan’s descendants settled in Greece.

Later on, they reinvented themselves and settled a land they would call Khazaria – from the word Qasar, with its Turkic root Qaz, meaning to roam – following the break-up of the western Turkish Steppe Empire. Then the country converted en masse to Judaism/Pharisaism, sometime between 740 and 920 AD, just so they could remain independent of the two competing empires of that time, Christianity and Islam.

“Judaism was the most actively proselytizing religion,” explained Jewish historian Shlomo Sand. “The most significant mass conversion occurred in the 8th century, in the massive Khazar kingdom between the Black and Caspian seas.”

“A family acquaintance told Haaretz that the Inas Hamrash was in the advanced stages of pregnancy and was asleep alongside her daughter when their home was struck. Her husband underwent surgery overnight for his wounds, the Gaza Health Ministry reported.

“Analysis – Palestinian Protesters in Gaza: Don’t Wound Us – Kill Us
How many of the young people protesting at the Gaza border fence hoped the soldiers facing them would pull the trigger and end their lives? Unfortunately, many

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“A person who was shot in the leg and had his leg amputated weeps. Not because his leg is gone, but because the soldier didn’t kill him.”

“We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear
down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts
deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of
the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for
our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find
satisfaction” Maurice Samuel

Please stop posting selected by your hateful purpose all kinds of crap out of context

In the United States, it is called “suicide by cop”, and is practised by the weakest of criminal minds.

The palestinian penchant for Arab hyperbole doesn’t play well outside the poor peasantry, where individuals take responsibility for their own desires and actions instead of always blaming someone else they presume wields power over them and their lives. Spoiler Alert: there is no such someone else .. no need to find oneself in Jahannam before learning that life lesson.

Please, everyone support Israel. Because 6 million was killed in Germany {{{Though That is the biggest lie we have ever pushed into your brain by the media that we control. & Most of you don”t know that we have caused most of the wars from the time immemorial & you will never know about the real Crimes we committed in Siberia, Armenia, Ukraine, Germany because you hear what we want you to hear & you see what we want you to see because we control everything….even your politicians are our servant we buy them & We killed More ” Goy ” than you can imagine & We are The World’s Most Efficient Killing Machine, Actually,We have mastered all the killing technique sometimes you will never know that we killed him because it looks very natural after all we are the masters & occasionally, We make human sacrifice, it”s our religious ceremony but no!! we don’t sacrifice our children we just take it from some other place you know…We drain out all the blood from the body of baby Gentile & later we use it to make bread & various purpose… I won’t say anymore!! you find out ….& No one can touch us because ” ” Over the course of time we have created a legal system that authorizes Us and a moral code that glorifies Us ” “. .}}} Time to time, We were kicked out from more than 100 countries, Our ass turned Red, We can’t take it anymore…Ops!!!! Allow us to kill more, steal land and torture Christian and Muslim Palestinians. America just has to do is keep giving us 40 billion annually, So We can keep up the murdering and buy white phosphorous because the Palestinians are likely dying this way.﻿”